Isaiah 8 Bible study: A sanctuary and a stone

The chapter opens with a command to write: "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’" (8:1). Then 8:2 names "faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah" (8:2). Only after that does the chapter tell of a son: "I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’" (8:3). The name is given to be written, with witnesses named, before the chapter tells of the child who bears it. And 8:4 sets a time-mark by the child: "For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria" (8:4). Chapter 7 had named those two cities: "For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin" (7:8), and "The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son" (7:9), the two kings who "went up to Jerusalem to war against it" (7:1). The chapter gives no meaning for the name beyond what 8:4 says, and these notes don't either.

Isaiah 8:18→leads toHebrews 2:13

In Isaiah the prophet says, "Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel" (Isaiah 8:18). Hebrews speaks of "Jesus" (Hebrews 2:9), "the author of their salvation" (Hebrews 2:10), and says, "For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers" (Hebrews 2:11). Then Hebrews gives words he says: the words of Psalm 22:22 (Hebrews 2:12), and "Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”" (Hebrews 2:13). The last words are close to Isaiah 8:18's opening in the WEB: Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me, and Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me. Hebrews doesn't name Isaiah. In Isaiah the children are the ones the LORD gave the prophet, "for signs and for wonders in Israel" (Isaiah 8:18); Hebrews gives the words to Jesus, of the children he is not ashamed to call brothers. This line says no more than Hebrews says.

מוֹרָאmorasay mo-RA

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "fear, terror", and among its senses "object of reverence, esp. God". Strong's: "fear; by implication, a fearful thing or deed". "Don’t fear their threats or be terrorized" (8:12): threats is this noun, literally its fear, the fear of "this people" (8:12). The next verse has it again: "He is the one you must fear" (8:13), literally he is your fear. The hearers are not to fear what this people fears; the LORD is to be their fear. Isaiah has the word only in these two verses. Deuteronomy has it of what the LORD did in Egypt: "with great terror, with signs, and with wonders" (Deuteronomy 26:8).